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...ever took "Mike" Pearson for a barefoot boy, least of all Russia's Jacob A. Malik, who once said: "I always listen when he speaks...
Chicago is the Democratic stronghold, usually producing pluralities of around 250,000. The Chicago Democratic machine is the most effective in the U.S. Although Chicago's boss Jacob ("Jack") Arvey is himself not tainted with corruption, organized crime nourishes in Chicago. Republicans frequently charge that the underworld is protected by members of Arvey's organization. The Kefauver Senate committee called Chicago "a focal point for the activities of organized criminals...
Died. Viscount Astor, 73, onetime (1939-44) Lord Mayor of Plymouth, newspaper executive (the London Observer); of asthma; in Cliveden. A New York-born great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, he became a British subject when his father was naturalized in 1899, later married tart-tongued Nancy Witcher Langhorne of Greenwood, Va., who became the first woman to sit in the House of Commons (1919-45). Said he: "When I married Nancy, I hitched my wagon to a star; when she got into the House of Commons, I found I had hitched my wagon to a sort...
...Jacob Epstein, one of the greatest living sculptors, is a bullet of a man with an independent eye and a longstanding reputation as one of the bad boys of art. "The man in the street is a fool," he once declared. And the public has usually returned the insult; shocked art lovers once set on Epstein's early Rima, a lumpish, bas-relief nude, and painted it green. But in recent years, both Sculptor Epstein and his critics have mellowed a bit. Last week, after a look at a Tate Gallery show spanning his life's work, London...
...door last week, hoping to get in. The five: Libya, Japan, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos (the last three are more or less autonomous states formed from the former French colony of Indo-China). Ten of eleven Security Council members voted to admit all five. But Russia's Jacob Malik blackballed them by casting Soviet vetoes, Nos. 51 to 55 incl...